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			<h1>Grimms&apos; tales</h1>
			<p>Day 00989: <time>Monday, 2017 November 20</time></p>
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		I finally finished that book of Grimms&apos; fairy tales my coworker lent me.
		It was quite a massive read, and as the book stayed at work, I only had ten-minute increments in which to read it (on my breaks).
		Basically, the tales can each be put in one of three categories: Christian mythology, stories we&apos;d think of as fairy tales today, and stories with no apparent rhyme or reason to then.
		I&apos;ve never really been one to enjoy Christian mythology, partly because people today actually believe it to be true and partly because Christian mythology is just so much less interesting than the mythologies of past religions.
		Still, some of those stories were enjoyable.
		The second group was of much more interest, but there weren&apos;t as many morals presented by the stories as I&apos;d previously been led to believe.
		I&apos;d been told the purpose of the tales of the brothers Grimm was to present ethical values to children.
		As for the third category, these were stories that suddenly jumped to strange conclusions or had bizarre plot holes.
		I&apos;m not sure why these stories would have been told and retold before the Grimms went around and gathered them.
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		Today was a productive study day, but I feel like there&apos;s just no catching up with where I should be this week.
		I have a new plan though.
		I&apos;ll do my best to catch up tomorrow.
		At a minimum, there&apos;ll be time to complete the last of the discussion assignments (I&apos;ve started both already) and complete a large chunk of the reading material.
		I&apos;ll definitely have time to finish one course&apos;s reading material, but the other course&apos;s material is long and bizarre.
		One of the assigned readings for that course is a long <abbr title="Portable Document Format">PDF</abbr> file full of comics, some of which are in English and some of which aren&apos;t, and if I recall, there&apos;s several long <abbr title="Portable Document Format">PDF</abbr>s full of actual text as well.
		In the likely event that I don&apos;t finish, I can buy one extra day.
		Like most courses at this school, the learning journal assignments (and therefore, effectively, the reading assignments) are due a day after everything else.
		I have Thursday off, and my mother still hasn&apos;t mentioned her plans to me for that day, so I&apos;m likely not involved in them.
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		Due to somewhat-foreseen technical difficulties, I wasn&apos;t able to test my state of being, nor was I able to push allong my recovery.
		I&apos;ll do that tomorrow.
		However, I feel like I&apos;m doing better at least than I have been lately, so hopefully I can get back my full motivation, or at least most of it, within the next couple days.
		As long as I&apos;m censored, it&apos;s not possible for me to run at full steam, but I should be able to do well enough.
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